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Despite the fact that Portuguese is the official language of Brazil and the vast majority of Brazilians speak only Portuguese, there are several other languages spoken in the country. According to the president of IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) there are an estimated 210 languages spoken in Brazil. 154 are Amerindian ...
It was the predominant language spoken in Brazil until 1758, when the Jesuits were expelled from Brazil by the Portuguese government and the use and teaching of Tupi were banned. [56] Since then, Tupi as lingua franca was quickly replaced by Portuguese, although various Tupi–Guarani languages are still spoken by small native groups in Brazil.
Pages in category "Languages of Brazil" The following 173 pages are in this category, out of 173 total. ... Brazilian Portuguese; Portuguese language; Portuñol ...
The Portuguese referred to this language as the "Brasílica language"; nowadays, it is known as Old Tupi. [ 1 ] [ a ] It was the language colonizers learned and spoke for a long time, in order to be able to colonize the territory, as their population was much smaller than the indigenous one. [ 3 ]
The Indigenous peoples in Brazil (Portuguese: povos indígenas no Brasil) comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups, who have inhabited the country prior to the European. The word índios ("Indians"), was by then established to designate the people of the Americas and is still used today in the Portuguese language to designate these ...
The Pirahã language is one of the phonologically simplest languages known, comparable to Rotokas and the Lakes Plain languages such as Obokuitai.There is a claim that Pirahã has as few as ten phonemes, one fewer than Rotokas, or even as few as nine for women, but this requires analyzing [k] as an underlying /hi/ and having /h/ invariably substituted for /s/ in female speech.
National language in Switzerland (with German, French, and Italian) [41] ... Sao Pauloan Brazilian Portuguese (Portugues) Central African Republic (with French) [39]
Brazilian language may refer to: Brazilian Portuguese , a set of dialects of the Portuguese language used mostly in Brazil and spoken by virtually all of the 200 million inhabitants of Brazil One of the other languages of Brazil